Adding to the tempest around altering traditional teatime treats, United Biscuits slashed the fat from McVitie's Digestives in 2009.

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Finally, one evening at teatime, gauging the psychological moment, Nawab asked if he might say a word.

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O'Grady will present a Sunday teatime programme while Carr will team up with Emma Forbes on Saturday evenings.

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We gathered in the street just after teatime as Camilla Tellefsen, our 28-year-old choreographer, worked her way through the crowd saying hello.

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Bus companies need more drivers for the morning rush than at 11am, and banks require more tellers at lunchtime than at teatime.

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He sits at the kitchen table, and I bring him some milk in his Manchester United mug and a plate with a teatime snack.

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"In fact the local referee said it was unplayable yesterday teatime but the conference officials wanted us to give it as long as we could, " he said.

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Hence teatime at the Institute for Advanced Study down the road from us in Princeton, credited for the birth of countless collaborations and papers since it began in the 1930s.

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Though they've become a modern supermarket staple in the States, the chewy, cornmeal-dusted buns we call English muffins have a much longer history in the British Isles, where the teatime treats are known simply as muffins.

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If there's more rain, you might expect to see it in the lee of Green Mountain's central peak and there is indeed a rainier strip, the locals say, stretching across the island from Two Boats to Comfortless Cove, a frequent source of teatime drizzle in the rainier months.

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